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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/18/2014 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 157, 2014, APPROPRAgenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY November 18, 2014 City Council STAFF Mary Aardrup, Volunteer Coordinator Bruce Hendee, Chief Sustainability Officer SUBJECT Second Reading of Ordinance No. 157, 2014, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon Program and Authorizing the Transfer of Matching Funds Previously Appropriated in the Environmental Services Operating Budget. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Ordinance, unanimously adopted on First Reading on November 4, 2014, appropriates $4,973 awarded to the City by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, transfer a matching amount of $4,973 from the 2014 General Fund and, combine these funds in the Environmental Services Radon Program account. The Radon Program carries out radon risk-reduction activities as identified in the current City budget. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading. ATTACHMENTS 1. First Reading Agenda Item Summary, November 4, 2014 (w/o attachments) (PDF) 2. Ordinance No. 157, 2014 (PDF) Agenda Item 7 Item # 7 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY November 4, 2014 City Council STAFF Mary Aardrup, Volunteer Coordinator Bruce Hendee, Chief Sustainability Officer SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 157, 2014, Appropriating Unanticipated Grant Revenue in the General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon Program and Authorizing the Transfer of Matching Funds Previously Appropriated in the Environmental Services Operating Budget. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to appropriate $4,973 awarded to the City by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, transfer a matching amount of $4,973 from the 2014 General Fund and, combine these funds in the Environmental Services Radon Program account. The Radon Program carries out radon risk-reduction activities as identified in the current City budget. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION This Ordinance appropriates $4,973 of unanticipated grant revenues in the General Fund. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment granted these funds to the City for a program to encourage radon testing and mitigation through media advertising and low-cost test kit sales. The grant directly supports radon activities identified in the City budget offer, “Air Quality Improvement.” The grant requires a local match of $4,973. Matching funds for the program will be transferred from the 2014 Environmental Services operating budget. Grant and matching funds would be combined in a new Environmental Services Radon Program account. FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS City resources would be increased by $4,973. Required matching funds have already been appropriated in the 2014 General Fund. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS These funds will be used to lower the lung-cancer risk of Fort Collins residents that have elevated home radon levels. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION At its October 20, 2014 meeting, the Air Quality Board unanimously supported bringing forward the appropriation to the Radon Program. ATTACHMENT 1 Agenda Item 7 Item # 7 Page 2 PUBLIC OUTREACH Public outreach will be conducted throughout the year with presentations, educational materials and through print and electronic media. ATTACHMENTS 1. Air Quality Advisory Board minutes, October 20, 2014 (PDF) - 1 - ORDINANCE NO. 157, 2014 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS APPROPRIATING UNANTICIPATED GRANT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES RADON PROGRAM AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF MATCHING FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES OPERATING BUDGET WHEREAS, the Fort Collins Environmental Services Radon Program (the "Program") is part of the City’s indoor air quality program, which is guided by the Air Quality Plan with a policy goal to educate and encourage residents to reduce their exposure to indoor air pollution; and WHEREAS, the Program includes aggressive education, a voluntary radon testing program, mandatory radon mitigation in new construction, and an ordinance requiring the distribution of radon information to all residential home-buyers at the point-of-sale; and WHEREAS, the City of Fort Collins has been awarded a grant from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (“CDHE”) in the amount of $4,973; and WHEREAS, the CDHE grant funds are to be used to lower the lung-cancer risk of Fort Collins residents by directly supporting radon activities identified in two City Budget offers, Air Quality Improvement and the Radon Mitigation Behavioral Study; and WHEREAS, the grant requires $4,973 of matching funds, which have been included in the 2014 Environmental Services budget and are available for transfer to the CDHE project for the Program; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 9, of the City Charter permits the City Council to make supplemental appropriations by ordinance at any time during the fiscal year, provided that the total amount of such supplemental appropriations, in combination with all previous appropriations for that fiscal year, does not exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS, City staff has determined that the appropriation of the CDHE grant funds as described herein will not cause the total amount appropriated in the General Fund to exceed the current estimate of actual and anticipated revenues to be received in that fund during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS, Article V, Section 10, of the Charter authorizes the City Council to transfer by ordinance any unexpected and unencumbered amount or portion thereof from one project to another project, provided that the purpose for which the transferred funds are to be expended remains unchanged. - 2 - NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated from unanticipated grant revenue in the General Fund the sum of FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE DOLLARS ($4,973) for expenditure in the General Fund for the Environmental Services Radon Program. Section 2. That the unexpended appropriated amount of FOUR THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY THREE DOLLARS ($4,973) is authorized for transfer from the Environmental Services operating budget in the General Fund to the CDHE grant project for the Environmental Services Radon Program and appropriated herein. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 4th day of November, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 18th day of November, A.D. 2014. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 18th day of November, A.D. 2014. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk